joebadmo

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by joebadmo 15y ago
Why signal your intelligence with a degree that you worked hard for but has no intrinsic value? I think your understanding of my position is colored by your assumptions about value. If you mean "no intrinsic value" as 'employability' or '
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by joebadmo 15y ago
I understand this sentiment, too. But after working without the status bar in Chrome (autohide, I guess) for a while, I got used to it and now actually quite like it. And I think hiding it by default, especially for app tabs, is actually qu
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by joebadmo 15y ago
Those are fair points, and I didn't mean to minimize the profession, or imply that it's easy to learn. My point wasn't that you don't need education to become good at something, it was that an undergraduate education shouldn't just be about
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by joebadmo 15y ago
Even if "how fast can you pick up a programming language" is your only metric, I would imagine that individual talent/intelligence/determination are better indicators than college major. I.e. I'd bet that between two identical people, one a
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by joebadmo 15y ago
I imagine real estate prices and tax policies have a lot to do with it.
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by joebadmo 15y ago
I majored in Comparative Literature. I made that choice under two working assumptions: 1. Higher education isn't about learning how to perform in a vocation; it's about learning how to learn. It's not about taking the next step in a career
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by joebadmo 15y ago
Information Design: Card stacks create random breaks in the reading flow. The more breaks the more you need to reorient—in other words: Think. One thing I've found is that in a scrolling interface, I tend to neurotically scroll constantly
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by joebadmo 15y ago
Thanks, that's what I was looking for. I guess I haven't really been following Gruber long enough to have been exposed to those arguments, and he doesn't really seem to have linked back to them (they are pretty old). That said, I'm not sure
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by joebadmo 15y ago
I agree that nothing about the market share argument has been proven, true or false. The evidence only shows that the market share argument is false or that we simply haven't reached the threshold yet. But: "The market share argument implic
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by joebadmo 15y ago
You're totally right, that market share argument is often vague and probably unfalsifiable, but there's at least a clear logic to it. "It hasn't happened yet," on the other hand, is not an argument at all. An analysis charting data of total
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by joebadmo 15y ago
I agree that one instance of malware doesn't necessarily mean anything, but growing market share does. And what the ars article points out that's really pernicious is Apple's response to the issue, which is not a good sign for how they migh
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by joebadmo 15y ago
Sure, that's one advantage, but it doesn't seem like a decisive one, really. I must have missed his arguments re market share. I've only ever seen him post the historically periodic articles about how people have always been saying it's abo
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by joebadmo 15y ago
You know, I've been thinking about how great it would be to have a decentralized twitter/news system, but I wonder if that would actually make censorship like this easier because you could target users directly, which would be less absurd t
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by joebadmo 15y ago
Yeah, I really don't understand Gruber's position on this. It seems fairly obvious and inarguable that as Macs become a bigger target, there will be more and worse malware on them. Is he saying that there's something inherent to Mac OS that
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by joebadmo 15y ago
WG has actually maintained, even very recently on twitter, that he quite enjoyed JM. He did write the screen play.
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by joebadmo 15y ago
Sad. My wife visited the office during a brief stint consulting for MS last year. She said the space was beautiful and the people and environment were vibrant and exciting. It looked like a new hope for MS, a fresh division with new blood,
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by joebadmo 15y ago
I like how the Android browser handles the issue[1]: Show url while loading, then hide. Address bar becomes exposed when you scroll up past the top of the page. [1]: Not that Android browser is unique or first to implement it this way; it's
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by joebadmo 15y ago
Isn't that just a denial of the terms/definitions? Isn't it also a solipsistic argument, i.e. doesn't it equally apply to all other people?
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by joebadmo 15y ago
Open source alternative for Android/Chrome: http://www.2cloudproject.com/ The experience is really nice because it uses the native Android 'share link' dialogue.
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On Founding a Software House(theatlantic.com)
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by joebadmo 15y ago
All of these recruitment horror stories are starting to scare me about Google, but I wonder how much of it is selection bias. Anyone who has a good experience almost definitionally gets sucked into the G-Vortex and basically never gets hear
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Rat holes(blog.byjoemoon.com)
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by joebadmo 15y ago
I think an important part that is perhaps underemphasized is that Apple has proven that Apple can do this. It's Apple's singular focus on quality that enables it, and it's surely the hard way to do it. And Apple can do it precisely becaus
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by joebadmo 15y ago
I'm not sure why the gp is avoiding the issue. Live widgets on home screens are great. They give you interactivity and live updates without having to enter an app. So things like weather, news, calendars, etc. The home screen in general is
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Holding the web in your hands(blog.byjoemoon.com)
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by joebadmo 15y ago
I agree. At some point, openness for vendors/carriers is in tension with openness for users. As a user, I'm happy to see Google clamp down on the vendors/carriers, if it means they're finally taking my side. Hopefully that's what it means.
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by joebadmo 15y ago
Why can't non-Asians form sentences and why do they generalize so much?
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by joebadmo 15y ago
I think it's hard to talk about because it's often systemic, invisible, and cultural simultaenously. Even when it becomes visible, it's easy for one side to blame the culture and the other side to blame the system, when both are probably to
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by joebadmo 15y ago
My point is that the conversation still seems mostly to be about how to get the things we think we want. I want to talk about what we should want. This passage in the article stood out to me: Things that somehow come naturally to people wh
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by joebadmo 15y ago
It bothers me that as a generation, we are rejecting our parents way to play the game, when instead we should be rejecting the game. Humility and willingness to work hard without complaint are the most valuable things my parents gave me. De

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